Platform publicity system



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R. W. BROWN PLATFORM PUBLICITY SYSTEM Filed June 19, 1923 Patented Jan. 27, 1925;

UNITED. STATES 4 1,524,287 PATENT on on.

ROLAND-W. BROWN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLATFORM .PUBLICITY SYSTEM.

, Application filed June 19, 1923. Serial No. 646,367.

[0 aZZ who it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROLAND V. BnowN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, boroiighof Manhattan, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful l n noveincnis' in Platform Publicity Systems, of which the following is a speciiicw tion.

This invention relates. to sound transmitting systems or apparatus and has particular tem of visible display stations oi. the representation of the figure and voice of a char acter at the ma n broadcasting station,

More specifically stated, this system has been devised with the primary object of utilizing the well known principles of radio broadcasting. for political campaign parties, and afurtherobject to be attained thereby to enable the publicity campaign committee of any political party to provide on each of any number of widely separated local platformsa figure, dummy, picture, or other representation of a well known po litical character, such as a leading national candidate, and to arrange at, near, or within thefacial portion of said figure or representation, the bell portion ofa loud speaking apparat'us suitably connected in a well known manner with a rad oireceiv ng outfit, so that thesoundsdelivered therefrom will seemto come,,f rom' the .nioutlr of the figure, and which sounds will have originated directly from the vocal organs of the person represented by the figure while he may be stationed at any convenient or distant head-' quarters, and whereby in the use of my-new system such prominent or leading national character will in efl'ect be a personal attraction at eachof the local rallies or events, both by appearance of his person and the actual sound of. his voice while deliveringv a public address. I wish it to be understood, however, that while my system has been devised'primarily for campaign publicity purposes, the same idea may be utilized in other specific manners and for other purposes.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter pearanceand sound of some described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a prac tical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a diagram suggesting the act of delivering a public address by an individual, as a national political candidate, at a central station and from which the address is being broadcasted to a multiplicity of other stations, at each of which other sta-' tions is a representation 'of the character or individual actually delivering the address. I

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the figr. e mechanism at the several local stations.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, .10 indicates sound receiving and transmitting mechanism such for instance, as

the well known broadcasting apparatus, suitor super stations, according to dist-ance to be covered, the nature of the wave length or electrical equipment, or the character of the original sound being broadcasted. The

plurality of sub stations or local centers represented at A will therefore be understood as being of any suitable nature according to the equipment or apparatus-at any desired time. For the purpose of this description specifically; however, these stations A may be though-t of as an indefinite number or multiplicity of local units or stations where political rallies are being held simultaneously and at which as an attrac' tion will be the representation of the apgreat or notable character who in person wil be located at the central station and actually speaking into the apparatus at 10.

The system may be developed and ractised' in various-ways, but as a practice embodiment I employ a figure or representation of the character A as by printing,

' painting, or otherwise placing upon a chart,

screen, or other device as at 12, the representation of the speaking character.- This representat-ion may be effected upon the'screen or chart in any well known or approved manner, even by light projection thereupon,

as from a projection.machine such as a mov ing picture from a moving picture machine, or a stereopticon, but the arrangement is such that that. portion of thedevice 12 that carries or supports the facial portion of the figure shall be so arranged as to be suitable for transmission therethrough or therefrom of the sound of the individuals voice, and

" yet being of such a character or composition sheer or open to permit the sound Waves to pass directly therethrough without obstruction so thatthe speakers voice will be heard by the audience as coming directly from th It is well understood that in campaign activities especially, it is usual for local rallies to beheld for educational and publicity purposes and for a'number of local people or candidates to be assembled on the platform for the discussion of local issues and to furnish enthusiasm sufiicient to attract the voters of such locality, and then for the discussion of National or State issues it has heretofore. been attempted to present Nation-alor State candidates of repute as a part.

of the .evenings program.

I These attempts, however,

are usually unsatisfactory because of the physical impossibility for the more prominent candidates to be present at such events or for them to be on any one platform long enough to satisfy the necessitv arising from the questions to be discussed by them. By my system, however, it is ohso ,vious that any desired number of local termined hour the national candidate or other person of more than ordinary importance will be announced, and, in effect, actually presented to take his place on each of the local platforms, thereby adding not only the attractiveness of his seeming appearance but the actual benefit of his actual speech and the intelligence 'to be expected from such character. As before indicated the figure or means carrying the figure may be of any suit-able nature and preferably portable so as to be presented or. interchanged readily from time to time according to the direction of'the general committee or local conditions.

15 indicates the bell portion of the horn of a loud speaker 16 connected up in any well known manner with a receiving outfit l7 either behind or within the device car- .rying the representation of the speaker. It-

yvill of course be obvious that the local committee or talent may be located at the time upon the same platform as the figure representing the national candid ate.

I claim: I

The herein described system of platform publicity comprising the transmission from a main center of the voice of a well known character, the visual representation at the same time of said character at a number of widely spaced local points all remote from said center, said visual representation consisting of a substantially fullsize picture upon a relatively opaque and compact material, the head portion of said picture being upon a material adapted to allow the passage of soundtherethrough, and the causing of the sound of the voice of said character as originated by him to emerge from the region of said head portion of said] picture. In testimony whereof I afiix my si nature.

' v ROLAND IV. BR IVN. 

